OPEKATIONS ON THE m'cLOUD RIVER IN l-7fi. 



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to to keep up the supply. It is more than i)robabIe that this will be 

 done, in Avhich event it is likely that the funds will be provided by con- 

 tributions from the canning-companies on the river, and that the work 

 will be done by the United Stales Fish Commission. It will be seen by 

 the tables appended to this report that the work of the United States 

 Fish Commission this year on theMcCloud River in California has been 

 very successful. It has been, also, without doubt, every year a ^reat 

 public service. It depends, it is true, for its continuance on appropria- 

 tions made by Congress, but every thousand dollars expended by the 

 people in this work is returned to them tenfold, or, perhaps, one- 

 hundred-fold, in the increase of the food-fislies of the country. 



H— TABLES EXHIBITING THE WORK AND OBSERVATIONS. 



To illustrate what has been done at the McCloud station by the United 

 States Fish Commission, I give below a tabular statement of the daily 

 number of salmon-eggs taken at the fishery for the last three seasons: 



Table I. — Dail;/ record of salmon-eg(js taken at the United States salmon-ireeding estab- 

 lishment, McCloud liiver, Redding, California, 1874, 1B75, 1876. 



